The 24-year-old Yorkshireman struck a wonderful 130, his second hundred of the arrangement, in Britain's innings and 78-run win in the fourth Test at Trent Span on Saturday.
Triumph, finished inside three days, gave Britain an unsurpassable 3-1 lead in the five-match arrangement.
Root has scored 443 keeps running in the arrangement, with two hundreds and two half-hundreds of years, at a normal of 71.79.
The most recent version of the Worldwide Cricket Gathering's rankings distributed Sunday saw Root on top of the batting standings, with Australia's Smith, out for six and five in Nottingham, dropping down to third place.
South Africa's Abdominal muscle de Villiers was second in the standings.
Then the identical knocking down some pins rankings saw Britain's Stuart Wide move to a vocation high second place on the back of a shocking first-innings return of eight for 15 on his Nottinghamshire ground that was behind Australia's breakdown to 60 hard and fast.
The 29-year-old pacemen's ninth wicket of the match, taken in the second innings, saw him edge past quick knocking down some pins incredible Fred Trueman into fourth place in Britain's rundown ever driving Test wicket-takers.
Expansive has taken 308 wickets in 83 Tests to date and is 17 behind previous Britain quick bowler Sway Willis.
A blend of Expansive's structure and the unlucky deficiency at Trent Extension of the harmed James Anderson has seen the Lancashire paceman drop to third in the ICC standings, still headed by South Africa quick bowler Dale Steyn.
Australia quick bowler Michell Johnson moved down two spots to seventh.
Triumph at Trent Connect additionally created a measurable historic point for Alastair Cook as he turned out to be just the third English skipper, after W.G. Beauty and Mike Brearley, to twice win the Fiery remains on home soil.
Driving ICC Test player rankings as of August 9 after the fourth Fiery debris Test at Trent Extension (rank, change in positioning, player, group, positioning focuses, normal, most elevated positioning focuses):
Batting
01 (+2) Joe Root (ENG), 917, 56.58, 917, v AUS, at Trent Span, 2015,
02 (- ) Abdominal muscle de Villiers (RSA), 890, 52.09, 935, v AUS at Port Elizabeth, 2014,
03 (- 2) Steven Smith (AUS), 884, 54.66, 936, v ENG at Ruler's 2015,
04 (- ) Hashim Amla (RSA), 881, 52.48, 907, v PAK at Abu Dhabi, 2013,
05 (- ) Kumar Sangakkara (SRI), 874, 58.04, 938, v ENG at Kandy, 2007,
06 (- ) Angelo Mathews (SRI), 860, 51.67, 877, v NZL at Christchurch, 2014,
07 (- ) Younis Khan (PAK), 829, 54.07, 880, v SRI at Lahore, 2009,
08 (- ) Kane Williamson (NZL), 813, 45.70, 860, v ENG at Lord's, 2015,
09 (- ) Chris Rogers (AUS), 763, 42.86, 793, v ENG at Lord's, 2015,
10 (+1) Virat Kohli (IND), 755, 45.73, 784, v NZL at Wellington, 2014.
Knocking down some pins
01 (- ) Dale Steyn (RSA), 905, 22.48, 909, v WIS at Centurion, 2014,
02 (+3) Stuart Expansive (ENG), 852, 28.97, 852, v AUS at Trent Span, 2015,
03 (- 1) James Anderson (ENG), 815, 29.38, 847, v WIS at Barbados, 2015,
04 (- 1) Trent Boult (NZL), 814, 27.12, 825, v ENG at Lord's, 2015,
05 (- 1) Yasir Shah (PAK), 810, 24.81, 810, v SRI at Pallekele, 2015,
06 (+1) Vernon Philander (RSA), 770, 22.13, 912, v IND at Johannesburg, 2013,
07 (- 2) Mitchell Johnson (AUS), 765, 28.03, 849, v PAK at Dubai, 2014,
08 (- ) Rangana Herath (SRI), 752, 30.17, 851, v PAK at Colombo (SSC), 2014,
09 (- ) Tim Southee (NZL), 713, 31.63, 799, v WIS at Jamaica, 2014,
10 (- ) Morne Morkel (RSA), 705, 29.66, 776, v AUS at Cape Town 2011.
(AFP)
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